“Quirk of Fate” Sees Star Architect’s Visit to Wellington Cancelled
Illness has forced architect Ben van Berkel to cancel his visit to Wellington. Mr van Berkel’s Dutch architecture firm, UN Studio, designed one of the winning entries in Wellington Waterfront Limited’s 2005 International Design Competition to find concepts for four building sites within the waterfront’s Waitangi [...]

MORE than 40 years after he drowned off a remote beach in the south of France, Le Corbusier remains a transcendent force. Even if some blame him for the modern city’s greatest sins, from the steamrolling of historical neighborhoods to a stultifying emphasis on function, he is indisputably the most influential architect of the past [...]